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Benjamin Haydon

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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Believe God Justice Mercy
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Devil Satan Triumph
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Devotional Persons True Religion
If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Certainty Chance Chances Immediate Life Men
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
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Difficult Indolence Indolent
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Architecture Artist England
Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
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God Justice Real
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
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Adversaries Friends Race
Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
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Conscience Duty Swerve
All government is an evil, but, of the two form’s of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
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Evil Government Monarchy Two
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Age Reputation Suffering
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Improvement Inspirational Life Self
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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Astonishing Done Genius Ordinary
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
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Everything Happiness Requisite Temperance
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Heart Love Malice Wit
Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Confusion Mathematics Newton

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